Road between Canon City and Colorado Springs urged
A vocal push supports a first class road linking Canon City with Colorado Springs. Proponents argue it will boost tourism, improve access to Beaver Creek and Royal Gorge, attract visitors, spark automobiling, and require modest public funding potentially via a $15,000 appropriation.
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Canon City
Colorado Springs
Colorado
Arkansas Valley
Royal Gorge
Upper
Beaver Creek
Internal Improvement Fund
Publc
Daily Record
Legislative Committee
General Assembly
Allen Bell
Bell
DeWeese-Dye Ditch Dives Share Count at Annual Meeting
The annual stockholders meeting of the DeWeese-Dye Ditch and Reservoir company was held in the district court room last Saturday with nearly all 6,800 shares represented. Shareholders voted to increase stock by 3,200 to 10,000 and elected Col. J. Q. MacDonald, William Fieldhouser, Newton King, Dall DeWeese, and J. W. Dunlap to the board with DeWeese as president and Dunlap as secretary-treasurer. The ditch’s capacity is seventeen cubic feet per second.
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DeWeese-Dye Ditch and Reservoir Company
District Court Room
J. Q. MacDonald
William Fieldhouser
Newton King
Dall DeWeese
J. W. Dunlap
Col MacDonald
Lincoln Park
Former Leadville Alderman Simon Rogers Dies in Local Hospital
Simon Rogers former Leadville alderman and Democratic politician died at the local hospital after a brief illness. Unmarried he leaves a married sister Mrs R A Fisher of Pittsburg Pa. He was 423 years old and born in Ireland, coming to Leadville in 1890 after twelve years in the liquor business.
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Leadville
Simon Rogers
R. A. Fisher
Pittsburg
Rogers
Ireland
Hotel Metropole Opens on Catalina Island
Avalon California January 4. On January 9 the Hotel Metropole, the leading hotel on Santa Catalina Island, will be opened with a complete new equipment. Fishing is good and a full season is expected. Better times over the entire country means a full tourist season for the whole west and Santa Catalina always gets more than her share.
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Wireless Telegraph
Avalon
Santa Catalina Island
Hotel Metropole
Santa Catalina
Pleasant New Year’s Eve Party in East Canon
The East Canon Entertainment Club hosted a New Year’s Eve gathering at the new Thompson Cook home on Orchard Avenue. Guests included Mr and Mrs Loehr, Marple, Vondra, Carpenter, Hibbard, Augustine, Tassell, Diamond, Mrs and Miss Wilkinson, Miss Miller, with games and socializing as the year turned.
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Thompson Cook
Orchard Avenue
East Canon
Loehr
Marple
Vondra
Carpenter
Hibbard
Agustine
Tassell
Diamond
Miss Wilkinson
Younger Pupils of Miss Conoway Give Recital
The younger pupils of Miss Gail Conoway gave a recital at her school. The program featured students performing solo pieces and small ensemble numbers.
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Gail Conoway
Community program participants listed for Saturday event
The notice names participants at a Saturday program held at home 820 Macon Avenue. The roster includes Louise Marr Ruth Marr Alma Elliott Aileen Oates Dorothy Wright Madeline Raynolds Ellen Higgins Hazel Higgins Ruth Stearns Ruth Combs Helen Seely Alice White Helen McKinnon Howardard Cooper Gertrude Crawford and Aileen Morrison.
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Macon Avenue
Louise Marr
Ruth Marr
Alma Elliott
Aileen Oates
Dorothy Wright
Madeline Raynolds
Ellen Higgins
Hazel Higgins
Ruth Stearns
Ruth Combs
Helen Seely
Alice White
Helen McKinnon
Howardard Cooper
Gertrude Crawford
Aileen Morrison
Fire on Water Street prompts two alarms near railroad tracks
The fire department battled a roof blaze in an untenanted Water Street house between Ninth and Tenth streets around 5 PM Sunday, likely sparked by a Denver & Rio Grande locomotive. A second early morning flare‑up at the same location was quickly extinguished with no major damage. the structure sits near D R G railroad tracks and is railroad property.
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Water Street
Ninth
Tenth Streets
Lincoln Park Notes and Development Plans
The column notes activity in Lincoln Park as crops fail in the area. Surveyors lay lines for a Park avenue extension, doubling its length by expanding into land beyond its current end. Pruning proceeds while the Likens dwelling on Park avenue nears completion and Dr Kittell remodels a Garfield street house. Whitlow is laid off by sickness. Daily Record want ads perform tasks.
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Park Avenue
Dr. Kittell
Garfield Street
Whitlow
Frontier Sketches of Wild Colorado Horses Chase
In Colorado during the early seventies bands of wild horses formed from escaped stock and immigrant ponies. A Greeley party hunted them, positioning riders and scouts to corral the herd as they pressed toward Willow Creek. A daring chase failed, but yielded insight into wild-horse habits and tactics.
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Colorado
Utah
California
Greeley
Willow Creek
Henry T. West
West
Prominent speakers lined up for Canon City banquet
The business men's banquet in Annex hall Monday January 11 will feature Clarence P. Dodge of Colorado Springs publisher of The Gazette and James S. Temple president of the Western Newspaper Union of Denver. The two will speak on business and Y M C A work, under ladies' supervision, with plans to strengthen the local Y M C A financially for future growth. President elect Taft praised the Y M C A as a powerful factor in business and government.
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Colorado Springs
Rocky Mountains
Denver
Canon City
Arkansas Valley
Pike’s Peak
Chicago
Milwaukee
America
Himan
Great Lakes
Colorado
Arkansas
Platte River
Intermountain
Royal Gorge
Annex Hall
Clarence P. Dodge
the Gazette
James S. Temple
Western Newspaper Union
Young Men’s Christian Association
Christian Associa
Taft
Shanghai
St. Paul
Young Men's Christian Association
Apple Tree Roots 60 Long Way for Water
Dr. G. H. Kittell of Lincoln Park brought town a large cluster of fibrous roots from an apple tree reaching thirty five feet down a well in search of moisture. The roots traced to a Ramb0 apple tree twenty five feet away totaled over twenty yards and were hung in the Record office window as a curiosity.
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G. H. Kittell
Garfield Street
Sherman Avenue
Lincoln Park
Kittell
Life of Mrs Eddy in City Library Public Copy
A copy of the life of Mary Baker Eddy by Sibyl Wilbur is now in the city public library. The work covers Eddy’s ancestry birth education and social development with authenticated facts and aims to counter a recent sensational magazine article.
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Mary Baker Eddy
Sibyl Wilbur
Mrs. Eddy
Recital by Miss Hendrickson's piano pupils delight guests
A group of Miss Hendrickson's piano students performed at a recital for invited guests at Mrs. Esther White's home at 804 Rudd. The high quality of the pieces shown strong progress in serious music, and Miss Hendrickson said she is highly pleased with her Canon students' work.
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Miss Hendrickson
Esther White
Rudd
Bing
City Clerk L D Dawson becomes deputy county treasurer
City Clerk L D Dawson assumed the role of deputy county treasurer this morning and was replaced at city hall by Jonathan Seaman who will manage city affairs for the rest of the municipal year. Dawson will retain his city clerk commission until his term ends while Seaman acts as his representative. Seaman is acquainting himself with the duties and requirements of the position.
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L. D. Dawson
Jonathan Seaman
Daily Record
Dawson
Seaman
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Lena Davis
Hesper Maule
Linnie Rundell
Irena Davis
Helen White
Vina Armitage
Gladys Carey
Eula Whitmore
Mrs. Cook
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